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Islamabad: Adviser to Prime Minister for National Harmony has invited everyone to look at issues of poverty alleviation from the perspective of the poor, emphasizing the importance of enhancing the capabilities of the poor to lift themselves out of poverty.
The Adviser extended the invitation while inaugurating One Room Shelters and latrines scheme for flood affected people in Rahim Yar Khan at the cost of 1.5 million euro aimed at ensuring security, safety and physical protection of flood affected families.
The project will encompass 13 union councils targeting a total 1000 households to receive one room permanent shelter. It will focus simultaneously focus on training the households on better hygiene practices to reduce the incidences of water borne diseases and skin infections which will create a health family environment and reduce their spending on medical treatments.
The Adviser called for detailed research and analysis of current social welfare practices to better define future programmes factoring on issues of inventive, proper targeting and structural issues of labour mobility in the context of need and demands locally and globally.
He said about two-thirds of impoverished people in the world live in middle-income countries. And they are mainly rural residents, those living in slums, indigenous peoples, minority ethnic people, the disabled.
He said that the impoverished female is in a far worse situation than the impoverished male. Globally, people are also worried about the lack of development opportunities for impoverished youths.
He stressed on the need to ensure that marginalized people can enjoy fair employment opportunities, public services and social welfare in order to eliminate poverty.
When developing related policies, there is a need to pay equal attention to fairness and people’s desire to express their opinions, to pursue their dreams and to participate in the decision-making process. He added.
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